Upcoming Session: July 28, 2024
Author: Robert W. Merry
Book: Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849–1861
Free
All Audiences
Every Sunday
These two-hour-long sessions feature deep dives into topics, eras, and special themes, led by Institute staff and the staff and faculty at outstanding historical institutions.
July 17: An Introduction to Gilder Lehrman Curricular Programs
July 23: The Kennedy Challenge: Inspiring a Divided Nation as Candidate and President
July 30: American Jews and the Second Red Scare
August 6: An Introduction to World War II Portraits of Service
Free
K-12 Teachers
Online
Study with eminent American history professors and dive deep into primary sources with master teachers this summer. Each of our seminars is composed of lectures that you can watch on your own schedule as well as live Zoom sessions featuring the scholar, Gilder Lehrman master teachers, partner organizations, and your peers.
Registration Deadline: 1 week prior to the start of the seminar’s live sessions
Cost: $25 per seminar
10 Seminars
Online
MA students can choose from a wide variety of courses each semester. Browse fall courses, watch lecture previews, meet the professors, and see course details.
Fall Semester Dates
This course will place Reconstruction and the resistance to it in a historical context, illuminating how Reconstruction broke from America’s past, how its radicalism was undermined and its promise beaten down, and how the struggles of that era continue today.
Regular Price: $39.99
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15 Professional Development Hours
Explore the role of Jewish Americans in American culture from the arts, to medicine and science, to business, to sports, to literature and civil rights.
Our master’s degree program gives K–12 educators an affordable way to earn a graduate degree while working full time.
Explore American history from your own home, in your own time, and at your own pace! Educators can obtain professional development credit.
These self-paced courses in American history are taught by the nation's top historians and are completely free for high school students.
Register for lectures by Jonathan W. White, Christopher Newport U., and guest scholars.
Open to Summer PD participants as well as other K–12 teachers
Open to Summer PD participants as well as other K–12 teachers
Scholar: Prof. Nikki L. Brown
Seminar Dates: August 5-8, 2024
Scholar: Prof. Kate Masur
Seminar Dates: August 5-8, 2024
Applications close for the Fall 2024 semester.
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
We hold many rare copies of foundational American documents, like this first draft of the US Constitution
Discover 2,000+ individuals who lived through the American Revolution, like the poet Phillis Wheatley.
Bring history to life with visual sources, like this US War Department recruitment poster (ca. 1944–1945).
In addition to documents, the Collection includes objects, like this campaign button for Lyndon Johnson.
Our Collection highlights the contributions of many Americans, like those of a female pilot in the 1910s.
Explore the fight against slavery through abolitionist writings, like this note by Frederick Douglass.
The Online Journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute
History Now features essays by the nation’s leading historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers.
Learn about the historical research process in this step-by-step guide. As you progress, you will have opportunities to apply what you are learning.
Image: American Servicemen and women in Paris celebrating the unconditional surrender of the Japanese, August 15, 1945 (National Archives, 111-SC-210241)
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